Call them poverty creators

[LiberalEsto]

How typical of the right-wing spin machine to take facts and turn them 180 degrees to come up with a euphemism for the media.

"Job creators"? Not hardly.

The profiteering corporations who set out to destroy the middle class and wreck our economy need to be called what they really are: poverty creators.

- They've outsourced American jobs to other countries.
- They've brought in cheap foreign labor by manipulating the H1B and other visa programs.
- They've laid off millions of decent hard-working Americans for little reason other than to boost stock profits and hike the pay of their executives to irrationally high levels.
- They've foreclosed on the homes of a great many Americans, casting them into poverty and homelessness.
- They've tried to destroy the collective bargaining laws through donating money to political candidates who will do as they say.
- They've driven down wages to the point that people need two or three jobs in order to pay for basic needs like food and shelter.
- They've used overseas tax shelters and other loopholes to avoid paying their fair share for the infrastructure of this nation.

Essentially what they have achieved in the past 20 or so years is to further enrich the already wealthy elite. And to impoverish millions of us American citizens.

Despite tax break after tax break, what jobs have they created, other than those of K Street lobbyists?

[salin]

1. We are the job creators... we the people, we the consumers, we the taxpayers, we th 99%

Many of the jobs created over the past few years have been taxpayer funded. The banksters and big corporations are hording. Rick Perry's Texas Miracle ("job creations") majority of those jobs were tax payer funded.

[Old and In the Way]

2. I like this....a nice counterpoint to the Big Lie.

How many jobs were created after the largest taxbreak ever rammed through Congress in 2002? Hardly any.

[dkf]

3. They are job creators and wealth builders to the Chinese.

But of course we are so much more deserving than a Chinese person.

[LiberalEsto]

5. True. China's got a growing middle class now.

Americans lose the middle class because of the corporations.
Chinese gain a middle class because of those same corporations.

I wonder what place will get a middle class when they can no longer exploit Chinese workers.

[dkf]

6. Billions of people on this planet.

Maybe they will be the ones protesting in the streets about why we Americans are using up the planet's resources while they get nothing.

Or maybe that is what the "death to America" types are all about.

[OHdem10]

8. That middle class is still small relative to billion people.

China is slow at expanding the middle class which
is necessary if they are sucessful in the end.
China has problems now because Europe and U.S. are
in dire straights and cannot buy their exports the
way they once could. Their middle class wages are
still extremely low. China has developed a Rich
Class of some size. Problem: The rich are all related
to the various Leaders in China.

Of course, we are lowering our wages so maybe if
they get low enough and we have no unions, the
Multinationals will come back here for their low
wage employees.

[tblue]

4. DING! DING! DING!

[Fresh_Start]

7. K&R ... sounds like it needs a website listing the

poverty creators....

financial institutions which caused the disaster
companies which outsourced jobs
politicians cutting food/housing for children

[aquart]

9. Exactly right.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Absolutely!

:applause:

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Calling themselves "job creators" is a fear-based attempt at untouchability.

So very sorry! K&R!

[OhioChick]

12. I couldn't agree with you more.... n/t

[PETRUS]

13. They've also

Manipulated currency values and monetary policy to the benefit of the financial sector but the detriment to the majority of working Americans.

De-funded the NLRB and engaged in union busting.

Deregulated the financial sector allowing Wall Street to make billions of dollars through speculation and arbitrage, which provides no real value to the economy.

Written imbalanced trade agreements to the benefit of owners and the detriment of working people everywhere.

Distracted us by focusing the public conversation on tax policy which allows them to hide other activities that result in an upward distribution of wealth and let's them complain about "punishing success."

Created an environment where the will and best interests of the people is subverted in favor of a small cadre who "buys access."

[LiberalEsto]

16. Absolutely right!

I suspect they've done all kinds of sneaky things we don't even know about.

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. Keep this kicked! Destroy their meme!

[moondust]

15. That's what they are.

Impoverishing millions/billions and keeping them there is extremely lucrative business for a relative handful of people; the fundamental problem with corporate/Wall Street capitalism, aka neofeudalism.